Extension fruit-dish holder



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

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EXTENSION FRUIT-DISH Heroes.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,197, dated January 22,1884.

Application filed July 17,1883. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, CHARLES S. BARBOUR,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extension Fruit-Dish Holders, of which the following is aspeeifica- .tion, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to the stands or holders for dishes, salvers, and similar articles, it being especially applicable to cake-baskets, fruit-stands, and the like, where a removable dish, plate, or bowl is employed to contain such cake, fruit, 810.

The design of the invention is to construct 1 the frame of such stands or holders as to render the same adjustable to adapt each one to receive and securely hold dishes of different sizes and shapes, as will be hereinafter de scribed and claimed.

In thedrawings, Fig. 1 represents a plan viewof aportion of the frame of a dish-holder,

' showing the horizontal adjustability of the arms and legs. Fig. 2 represents in side elevation reversed, one of my improved forms of holders with the arms and legs in position to receive the dish or other vessel. Figs. 3 and 4 represent plan views of the inner faces of the two-part disk. Fig. 5 shows'to an en larged scale detached views ofa part of the disk and arms and the clamping-screw. Figs. 6 to 9, inclusive, represent modifications in the construction of the several parts.

According to the preferred form, the invention may be broadly stated to consist in constructing or attaching each individual arm and leg of the holder integrally, in providing a central double disk-bearing, within which the inner ends of said arms and legs slide, rest,

h and. when necessary rotate, and in means for clamping the two parts together.

As at present constructed fruit and cake holders or baskets and similar articles for talole use are incapable of adjustment to adapt them to receive and hold dishes, plates, or other receptacles of different sizes and shapes.

It is the object of my present invention to construct the frame of such articles so as to render each one readily adaptable to receive dishes of either round, square, oval, oblong, or other irregular shape.

inward, whilethe other member is composed simply, besides the vertical portion, of a short horizontal piece, which is soldered or otherwise attached to the longer horizontal portion of the other member, and each basket or holder is provided with four of such combined legs and arms A B. V

0 represents a clamp or bearing, within which the inner ends ofthe combined arms and legs slide and are securely clamped when the desired adjustment of the parts to adapt them to hold the dish or other receptacle has been secured. This clamp is composed of two disks, D E, each having in their inner face grooves or recesses a b, of corresponding shape to and within which the inner ends of the combined arms and legs slide. The disks are clamped together by any of the well-known means usually employed for clamping two flat plates together. For instance, each disk may be provided with a central screw-threaded hole or orifice, through which a thumb-screw, as F, may be passed, the several threads being such that the rotation of said screws in one direction will press the disks together in clamp- I ing contact,with the arms or legs resting between said disks; or one disk may be provided with a screw-threaded boss or stem,which will pass through a central orifice in the other disk, and the two disks clamped together by means of a thumb-nut, G, passed along such screw-threaded boss or stem.

It will be readily apparent that by the construction above described the distance to whichthe combined legs and arms extend outward can easily be regulated to adapt the holdor to receive dishes of different size and shape. By this means a holder'const'ructed according to my improvements will be found capable of very general use. Its utility, as compared with the ordinary non-adj ustable holders, is enhanced, as the housewife can, should one dish become broken, easily place another securely in position, even though such substitute be larger or smaller than the original. In this way the holders need never be idle simply because the dishes belonging thereto are broken or lost. Again, by reason of the adaptability of the frame to hold dishes of different shapes, varied ornamental effects may be produced by substituting dishes of different shapes, designs, and colors.

In Fig. 6 I have shown a modified form of frame. In this figure the legs A have a block or disk, D, rigidly secured to and at the center thereof.

E represents the other or clamping disk, with which the armsB may be conneeted,either rigidly or with capability of sliding therein.

H represents a screw-rod passing through said disks, and I a nut traveling upon said rod and adapted to bind against the disk E, and clamp the same against the face of the disk D.

By forming the disk D rigid with the legs A, and mounting the disk E loosely thereon, said disks E,\viththearnis 13 attached thereto, can be swung around and clamped in position at any desired angle relatively to the legs A, to adapt the said arms to hold dishes of irregular shapes; or said arms may by this arrangement be swung around and clamped in line with and against the legs A, so as to render the frame as compact as possible and capable of easy storage or transportation.

Figs. 7 and 9 show still other modifications in the manner of connecting the arms and legs, and Fig. 8 shows the disks connected together by means of serrated inner faces and a spiraltally-adjustable legs A and arms 13, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a dish or plateholder, the combination of the legs A and arms B of the disk 0, adapted to receive and form a bearing for the inner ends of said legs and arms, and means, substantially as described, for clamping said disk, arms, and legs together.

4. A dish or plate holder having rotatable dish-grasping arms, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. A dish or plate holder having horizontally-adjustable and rotatable dish-grasping arms, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHAS. S. BARBOUR.

Vitnesses:

C. A. OAKS, M. P. DWYER. 

